Terrorism, according to the US State Department, is violence directed at innocent civilians in order to pressure a government or people. Blowing things up is not necessarily a requirement; look at the DC sniper for example.
How about Better Place? The creator had a prominent TED speech. Fills up faster than a regular car, and cheaper to own. The only issue is that they plan on charging by the mile, but insist it's still cheaper than your gas guzzler.
That's actually a bit OFF topic. We're talking about Iran, not its figurehead president. (Figurehead in that the Presidency has no control over the military nor over Parliament nor the Guardian Council)
Yes, Ahmadinejad said the US government planned 9/11, which is repugnant enough but I can see his rational basis for trying to make the claim; he's trying to be a populist like Hugo Chavez. Repugnant, but not stupid.
However, he didn't say "our goal is to wipe Israel off the map." He said (in Farsi) "The Imam [Khomeini] said the regime [of Israel] will vanish from the pages of time." He was quoting Khomeini and and was saying how Israel is going to vanish like the USSR, but didn't say how. This comes up very often; it's obvious he wants Israel gone, but he has no military command.
That's a bad way to look at things. We still have trials for repeat criminals, because despite a long record of convictions, they can still be innocent of the specific crime in question.
No, they didn't break the treaty. Iran is only required by the NPT to inform the IAEA 6 months before such a site goes operational. Iran insists that no nuclear enrichment had yet taken place at Qom. Despite being caught red-handed by the US for having the plant, once Iran publicly confirmed its existence they informed the IAEA that they would soon be enriching from there in the future. Like I said, they broke their word, not the treaty.
I wasn't going for moral relativism, I was faulting the people who keep spouting that "Iran is irrational" because of religion. It isn't, and there are other parties more apocalypticly-minded than Iran is.
It was never the claim that these arrested people are the ones who wrote the virus.
The article is quite thin on details, but I assume they arrested people they blame on espionage within the plant; either people with access to the computers (do we know if the infection was via internet or via flash drives?), or those who had detailed knowledge of what specific machinery/PLCs were installed and could pass it on to whomever wrote the custom-tailored virus.
Instead of knee-jerk saying Iran is arresting for political purposes, maybe we should consider that perhaps Iran did arrest actual collaborators? Everyone knows there are CIA and Mossad operatives in Iran.
So far they haven't broken the treaty. Have they broken their word? Yes, by building the Qom facility when they told the IAEA they would announce any new developments.
As Dave Chappelle said , "The worst you can call someone is crazy; It's dismissive." Iran is not stupid and not that crazy; they are rational and pragmatic. They are well aware of MAD and have been kept in line because of it; everyone knows Israel has nukes and Iran has been careful not to attack them directly. It's not theology that's at issue here; unlike Christian Zionists they do not believe they can "speed the coming of the apocalypse" by their actions.
Iran has not broken the laws. They have not broken the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and even offered to sign the additional protocols under the last President Khatami (I still blame Bush/Cheney for completely ignoring the offer). They did break their word when they said they wouldn't do anything unannounced and then went and built the Qom plant, but no laws broken. That means Israel is attacking another country illegally.
Baloney. Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades and the whole region knows it. Heck, the Israeli government has unofficially admitted it. If you're going to blame anyone for an arms race, blame Israel. Maybe we should blame the US for turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear program. The US ambassidor to Israel during the 60's and 70's said that his job was to make sure the President didn't have to act on Israel's nuclear issue; "The President did not send me there to give him problems. He does not want to be told any bad news." How about arming Saddam Hussein to attack Iran, leading to a million deaths and making them desire a larger military for self-defense?
Secondly, Iranians aren't apocalyptic; unlike the Christian Zionists they don't think the end of the world will come about by their actions. If Ahmadinejad believes the end times are coming, he is more likely to sit back and wait for it to happen, not strike preemptively.
How is this different than registering the Apple device with the app for Push notifications? The article is pretty thin on details and the PDF is kinda slashdotted. Granted, push access requires the user to agree to it via a popup on first launch.
No you don't. Show me a quote from an Iranian leader currently in power who said "We will hit Israel with a nuke." US Republicans and Israeli Likudniks have said to nuke Iran, but do you have a statement showing the reverse?
Iranians do see Israel and the US as enemies, since the US overthrew the democractic government of Iran in the 1950s, and tried to do it again after 1979. The amount of warmongering from Bush and Rumsfeld in both statements and actions (bombing Iranian embassy in an airstrike) only put them further on edge.
Your claim that their nuclear program can ONLY be for weapons and not energy is a silly claim, and you make it without proof. The IAEA and academics disagree with you.
People hack Windows for Fun or Profit. Script kiddies don't hack to cause Sabotage, and they don't hack expensive industrial control systems. I'm pretty sure whoever was this sophisticated didn't just get an equipment manual and write a virus for an embedded processor, they most likely got their hands on one to dissect and test a virus on, which some hacker kiddie can't do. It seems very likely someone bankrolled this with lots of money and resources. China is out since they are supporting Iran, and Russia is profiting from Iran as well. With the usual suspects out, it's time to look at Iran's enemies for this.
For China, just leave it up to your imagination how bad it could be. People will gravitate towards the worst-case scenario, and the lack of transparency will only increase that.
In many ways it would actually stabilize the region to have Iran beat down somewhat--you know, at least from Israel's perspective.
That was the thinking by the Neocons and the far right in Israel when the choice was made to attack Iraq, but it wound up backfiring. Israel felt and probably is much less safe now, since it galvanized the Arab world to cooperate with Israel even less and support "reisistance" groups like Hamas even more (Iraqi politicians like Muqtada Al-Sadr are now supporting them), and swung Iranian public opinion toward throwing out the moderate Khatami and voting for Ahmadinejad (the first time at least), and the expansion of training camps in Iraq meant that Israel now has long-term problems. Israel's generals can't say it openly, but in many conversations to the press it's been treated as a given that the whole misadventure put the region on less stable footing and has overall hurt Israeli security.
It would probably be picked up as a pilot by FOX. They love making faith win at the end of their shows; how many times has the atheist House been outsmarted by a patient who has faith? Multiple episodes.
Technically this isn't the first Google Voice app in the app store. There were GV apps years ago, then Apple yanked them in short order. This marks the return of GV apps, not a new arrival of the kind.
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That brings up another point; how come Paramount hasn't put ST:TNG up on iTunes? Everything else Trek is there
Terrorism, according to the US State Department, is violence directed at innocent civilians in order to pressure a government or people. Blowing things up is not necessarily a requirement; look at the DC sniper for example.
How about Better Place? The creator had a prominent TED speech. Fills up faster than a regular car, and cheaper to own. The only issue is that they plan on charging by the mile, but insist it's still cheaper than your gas guzzler.
That's actually a bit OFF topic. We're talking about Iran, not its figurehead president. (Figurehead in that the Presidency has no control over the military nor over Parliament nor the Guardian Council)
Yes, Ahmadinejad said the US government planned 9/11, which is repugnant enough but I can see his rational basis for trying to make the claim; he's trying to be a populist like Hugo Chavez. Repugnant, but not stupid.
However, he didn't say "our goal is to wipe Israel off the map." He said (in Farsi) "The Imam [Khomeini] said the regime [of Israel] will vanish from the pages of time." He was quoting Khomeini and and was saying how Israel is going to vanish like the USSR, but didn't say how. This comes up very often; it's obvious he wants Israel gone, but he has no military command.
Sheesh, I took it even further off-topic
That's a bad way to look at things. We still have trials for repeat criminals, because despite a long record of convictions, they can still be innocent of the specific crime in question.
No, they didn't break the treaty. Iran is only required by the NPT to inform the IAEA 6 months before such a site goes operational. Iran insists that no nuclear enrichment had yet taken place at Qom. Despite being caught red-handed by the US for having the plant, once Iran publicly confirmed its existence they informed the IAEA that they would soon be enriching from there in the future. Like I said, they broke their word, not the treaty.
I wasn't going for moral relativism, I was faulting the people who keep spouting that "Iran is irrational" because of religion. It isn't, and there are other parties more apocalypticly-minded than Iran is.
It was never the claim that these arrested people are the ones who wrote the virus.
The article is quite thin on details, but I assume they arrested people they blame on espionage within the plant; either people with access to the computers (do we know if the infection was via internet or via flash drives?), or those who had detailed knowledge of what specific machinery/PLCs were installed and could pass it on to whomever wrote the custom-tailored virus.
Instead of knee-jerk saying Iran is arresting for political purposes, maybe we should consider that perhaps Iran did arrest actual collaborators? Everyone knows there are CIA and Mossad operatives in Iran.
So far they haven't broken the treaty. Have they broken their word? Yes, by building the Qom facility when they told the IAEA they would announce any new developments.
As Dave Chappelle said , "The worst you can call someone is crazy; It's dismissive." Iran is not stupid and not that crazy; they are rational and pragmatic. They are well aware of MAD and have been kept in line because of it; everyone knows Israel has nukes and Iran has been careful not to attack them directly. It's not theology that's at issue here; unlike Christian Zionists they do not believe they can "speed the coming of the apocalypse" by their actions.
Iran has not broken the laws. They have not broken the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and even offered to sign the additional protocols under the last President Khatami (I still blame Bush/Cheney for completely ignoring the offer). They did break their word when they said they wouldn't do anything unannounced and then went and built the Qom plant, but no laws broken. That means Israel is attacking another country illegally.
No actually. The leftists were anti-American so the regime kept them around
Baloney. Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades and the whole region knows it. Heck, the Israeli government has unofficially admitted it. If you're going to blame anyone for an arms race, blame Israel. Maybe we should blame the US for turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear program. The US ambassidor to Israel during the 60's and 70's said that his job was to make sure the President didn't have to act on Israel's nuclear issue; "The President did not send me there to give him problems. He does not want to be told any bad news." How about arming Saddam Hussein to attack Iran, leading to a million deaths and making them desire a larger military for self-defense?
Secondly, Iranians aren't apocalyptic; unlike the Christian Zionists they don't think the end of the world will come about by their actions. If Ahmadinejad believes the end times are coming, he is more likely to sit back and wait for it to happen, not strike preemptively.
How is this different than registering the Apple device with the app for Push notifications? The article is pretty thin on details and the PDF is kinda slashdotted. Granted, push access requires the user to agree to it via a popup on first launch.
They're all indicted? How do you indict someone still "at large"? Doesn't that just mean there's an arrest warrant out for them?
Seriously, if it looks this good in Minecraft, imagine how much better it would look in SketchUp. Can we get a project going?
No you don't. Show me a quote from an Iranian leader currently in power who said "We will hit Israel with a nuke." US Republicans and Israeli Likudniks have said to nuke Iran, but do you have a statement showing the reverse?
Iranians do see Israel and the US as enemies, since the US overthrew the democractic government of Iran in the 1950s, and tried to do it again after 1979. The amount of warmongering from Bush and Rumsfeld in both statements and actions (bombing Iranian embassy in an airstrike) only put them further on edge.
Your claim that their nuclear program can ONLY be for weapons and not energy is a silly claim, and you make it without proof. The IAEA and academics disagree with you.
People hack Windows for Fun or Profit. Script kiddies don't hack to cause Sabotage, and they don't hack expensive industrial control systems. I'm pretty sure whoever was this sophisticated didn't just get an equipment manual and write a virus for an embedded processor, they most likely got their hands on one to dissect and test a virus on, which some hacker kiddie can't do. It seems very likely someone bankrolled this with lots of money and resources. China is out since they are supporting Iran, and Russia is profiting from Iran as well. With the usual suspects out, it's time to look at Iran's enemies for this.
For China, just leave it up to your imagination how bad it could be. People will gravitate towards the worst-case scenario, and the lack of transparency will only increase that.
In many ways it would actually stabilize the region to have Iran beat down somewhat--you know, at least from Israel's perspective.
That was the thinking by the Neocons and the far right in Israel when the choice was made to attack Iraq, but it wound up backfiring. Israel felt and probably is much less safe now, since it galvanized the Arab world to cooperate with Israel even less and support "reisistance" groups like Hamas even more (Iraqi politicians like Muqtada Al-Sadr are now supporting them), and swung Iranian public opinion toward throwing out the moderate Khatami and voting for Ahmadinejad (the first time at least), and the expansion of training camps in Iraq meant that Israel now has long-term problems. Israel's generals can't say it openly, but in many conversations to the press it's been treated as a given that the whole misadventure put the region on less stable footing and has overall hurt Israeli security.
It would probably be picked up as a pilot by FOX. They love making faith win at the end of their shows; how many times has the atheist House been outsmarted by a patient who has faith? Multiple episodes.
She's not the first person to do this. OJ Simpson trademarked his name in 1995 after the murder trial
Try it. Setup your own mail server. Heck, you could make a profit selling email accounts.
I doubt it though. Bill Gates suggested this in his 1995 book, but it never happened.
Technically this isn't the first Google Voice app in the app store. There were GV apps years ago, then Apple yanked them in short order. This marks the return of GV apps, not a new arrival of the kind.
Give me a break. You'd rather lash yourselves to Adobe rather than the open HTML5 standard?
Besides, there will be an adblock for HTML5 eventually. There's no structural limitations on it.
It states very clearly that this is ALPHA code. It's a bit too soon to formulate opinions on if its useable, right?
Why not associate doctors with terrorists too?
Che Guevara, Abdul Aziz Ar-Rantisi, Baruch Goldstein, and Bilal Abdullah were all MDs. Oh no!